Chapter 21 Allusions and other ReferencesAll Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”
Safety net “My hand dropped to my side. “What the hell are you doing here?” He shrugged. “Safety net. You know, your dad was panicked when he called me, he really didn’t expect you to figure out that code.”
“But it wouldn’t change the fact that no matter what I did, my mother and my brothers and my sisters down below were still in the hands of my father. If I ran, and even if I found help, I might lose my family ”
“My hands curled into fists. “I’m not trading this prison for a new one.”
“Phil screamed several choice words and then poked a finger in my chest. “Stupid kid! You set it off!” He scrambled to his feet and climbed back out of the hatch to where Dad was leaning over, looking down at us. Dad shouted over the blaring of the alarm. “How much time do we have?” Phil held out his hands. “The warning only sounds in the last ten minutes!”
“Was Dad on it? I was quite certain Phil didn’t have the nerve to leave without him.”
“And as I listened to the nothing of the night, a faint scream bit into the silence.”
“Out of the dark to my left, becoming more visible as they neared, was the rest of my family. Lexie carried the two little ones and Terese held Lucas.”
Chapter 21
Allusions and other ReferencesAll Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”
Safety net
“My hand dropped to my side. “What the hell are you doing here?” He shrugged. “Safety net. You know, your dad was panicked when he called me, he really didn’t expect you to figure out that code.”
Vocabulary and Concepts
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Literary Devices
“But it wouldn’t change the fact that no matter what I did, my mother and my brothers and my sisters down below were still in the hands of my father. If I ran, and even if I found help, I might lose my family ”
“My hands curled into fists. “I’m not trading this prison for a new one.”
“Phil screamed several choice words and then poked a finger in my chest. “Stupid kid! You set it off!” He scrambled to his feet and climbed back out of the hatch to where Dad was leaning over, looking down at us. Dad shouted over the blaring of the alarm. “How much time do we have?”
Phil held out his hands. “The warning only sounds in the last ten minutes!”
“Was Dad on it? I was quite certain Phil didn’t have the nerve to leave without him.”
“And as I listened to the nothing of the night, a faint scream bit into the silence.”
“Out of the dark to my left, becoming more visible as they neared, was the rest of my family. Lexie carried the two little ones and Terese held Lucas.”
“ I saw he was me. With longer hair.”